sia. Wayne loved to play poker and liked to drink whiskey. Wayne was once quoted saying, “I never trust a man that doesn’t drink.” Many people even saw John Wayne as quite the ladies man. “The Duke” was married three different times in his life. His first marriage was to Josephine Saenz. They were married from 1933-1945, before they were divorced. During that time, though he had two sons: Michael Wayne I, who is now a producer, and Patrick Wayne, who is an actor. They also had two daughters together: Toni Wayne and Melinda Wayne. His second marriage was to Esperanza Bauer. They were married in 1946 and became divorced in 1954. Then later on in 1954, Wayne married his third and final wife, Pilar Palette. They were married up until John Wayne died on June 11th, in 1954. In their marriage, though, they did have three children: Aissa, John Ethan, and Marisa Wayne. John Wayne, in his career, played in an astounding number of movies. He appeared in nearly two hundred fifty movies. He played the leading role in one hundred forty-two. Some of Wayne’s most remembered films are: Fort Apache (1948), She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949), and Rio Grande (1950). After Wayne filmed She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, his director, John Ford, sent him a cake that stated “You’re an actor now,” said Wayne to a reporter once. John Wayne wasn’t just known as an actor though. He produced and directed some of his finest films. He produced such films as: The Alamo (1960), The Fighting Kentuckian (1949), and The High and the Mighty (1954). On his directing resume were such movies as: The Green Berets (1968), The Alamo (1960), Blood Alley (1955), and The Comancheros (1961). “The Duke’s” last role was in 1976, where he played a dying gunslinger that was just coming to terms with his legend. This movie was called The Shootist. Many people felt that this was an appropriate...
